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Third Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack due in August photo

Activision and Treyarch have announced today that a third Call of Duty: World at War map pack, “Locked and Loaded,” is due for release in August.

“Locked and Loaded” will feature three new multiplayer maps -- “Battery,” “Revolution,” and “Breach” -- along with one new Zombie Mode map, “Der Riese.” As expected, these will be available for download on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360; no word on pricing.

It’s a bit surprising to see content for World at War still continues to get released, especially as we get closer to the release of Modern Warfare 2. Still, World at War is still a pretty popular online multiplayer game, and I suppose it doesn’t hurt to keep the Call of Duty brand fresh in everyone’s mind going in the holiday.

Do you guys think that World at War will continue to be relevant once Modern Warfare 2 hits shelves? Or will gamers only be playing these new maps for a few months before moving on?


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slayer the player's Avatar
slayer the player at 07/20/2009 11:24
three map packs in less than a year, wow
Chronic Logic's Avatar
Chronic Logic at 07/20/2009 11:32
Hell yea, the BIGGEST selling point of WaW is zombie mode. Treyarch knows a gold mine when it sees one. I wouldn't be surprised if World at War outsells Call of Duty 4. However, if Call of Duty 6 has zombie mode...
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RedWinterWolf at 07/20/2009 11:44
Oh god yes Tretarch PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I WANT TO KILL ZOMBIE VIETCONG IN COD 7 :D :D :D

Yes its the cold war reportedly
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Jimeee at 07/20/2009 11:57
Very surprising - I might get it. But sadly I will most likely never play once MW2 is released.

Treyarch DLC has been top notch so far and they deserve some recognition.
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Miguelcar808 at 07/20/2009 11:59
More Zombies.
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Pablos102030 at 07/20/2009 12:05
@RedWinterWolf:
Yes, it's about the cold war. Supposedly they have removed all shooting mechanics, and all you do is sit around mumbling about nuclear war, occasionally yelling at some cubans. The game ends with you breaking down a wall with a hammer.
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bodybreak at 07/20/2009 12:10
they had better support modern warfare 2 better than the first one -- i'm still a little confused as to why they only released a single map-pack after its massive success.
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Zippyduda at 07/20/2009 12:19
@bodybreak. Different companies dude, different companies... :]

It's nice to see Treyarch still supporting COD:WaW though :] I'll pick it up.
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bodybreak at 07/20/2009 12:31
yeah, i'm aware of the infinity ward and treyarch leap-frog mechanism for COD. i just hope that infinity ward will take a page from treyarch's book and support MW2 a little better than they did for the first one after launch.
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Doos at 07/20/2009 12:39
Sweet, the cold war! I hope it focuses on the space race! To the moon, bitches!
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Cacophony at 07/20/2009 12:57
Treyarch is too kind to us.

I think by now I've played World at War more then 4. And I have no intentions of picking up MW2 until there is a price drop unless I get pressured into it, so WaW still has plenty of life in it for me. Especially since I rarely bother with 4 anymore.
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Nogarda at 07/20/2009 13:01
Its weird. IW make a better CoD experience than Treyarch and add those all important new features that refreshed the series. but IW hardly ever supported MW1 post release it got 1 map pack of new maps and a second in the form of some updated cod2 maps. Yet Treyarch release so much dlc for thier iterations.

I'ld like to see a full clean break in CoD. And see CoD:MW3 in like 4 years time. But, with IW making the single player and Trey arch making about 30 multiplayer maps. :D best online shooter ever if that happened.

Or a map algorthym which randomly generates parts of the map. mild loading time delay but it would make every replay of a map fresh! til everyones played the 500 iteration of every individual map out there. so a technical potential of 15000 maps :)
Timmeh's Avatar
Timmeh at 07/20/2009 13:16
I think Modern Warfare and World at War cater to slightly different crowds, they are both very popular online despite Modern Warfare being somewhat older. Treyarch are smart to continue updating World at War as it will likely enjoy something like the continued popularity of Modern Warfare, with MW2 becoming the dominant CoD title and MW1 usage dropping off somewhat.
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Hammersmith at 07/20/2009 13:44
If they had a pack that was just the new zombie maps, I would buy that.
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SuN at 07/20/2009 13:46
Hope they'll still doing things like that, because releasing new content for the game is the only good thing Treyarch has done for us
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BS3 Owner at 07/20/2009 13:56
@ hammersmith

I think they would do this about the time MW2 comes out.
(( Perfect Timing about Oct. 13th. & then a sale on Xmas. ))

Zombie Map Pack...
The Zombie maps are the only thing I play.
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Avalon51 at 07/20/2009 13:57
The Brandenburg gate? Germany wont be happy.
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ArcticFox at 07/20/2009 14:56
I cant wait to not buy this and trade in WaW towards MW2. If the whole MP was Co-Op zombies maybe, but Im so done with this game and it's awful hardcore balance issues. Thats only my opinion, but compared to 4, WaW was not quite there.
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Mockingbird at 07/20/2009 16:13
I'll use my moon bucks on 'Splosion Man instead and keep using WaW as a coaster.
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CRAZYAPE69 at 07/20/2009 19:51
holy nazi zombies batman!
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CRAZYAPE69 at 07/20/2009 19:55
oh yeah and der riese is set in the land of the underpriced builders. Should be....brown/grey?
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Autumn at 07/21/2009 01:16
I love Waw, but I'd rather see some extra maps for Battlefield 1943 over these. CoD is just a little bland when you have the option to dive-bomb a tank in Battlefield!
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CaptainBus at 07/21/2009 03:08
Everyone knows that the next CoD should be about The Cola Wars.
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h3nry at 07/23/2009 00:45
more map pack this one should at least be worth especially the zombie if we buy it treyarch is really continuing waw almost a year now with the map packs and gaining more players everyday the players might lower down when mw2 comes out who knows mw2 might have a bonus minigame like nazi zombies or stuff
Jimeee's Avatar
Jimeee at 07/23/2009 05:40
Buy the maps to support Treyarch for doing such a good job with this game.
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